Legendary Scottish rebel William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
experienced a heroic death during a brutal execution scene after
he was found guilty of high treason. He courageously withstood torture
("I'm not dead yet") and then died for his cause at the
Tower of London.

First, he was stretched (partially hung with a rope by
his neck), racked (or stretched in mid-air by ropes tied to his hands
and feet), and then disemboweled in a public display.

Showing continual resistance, he defiantly cried out
his last word, not "Mercy" as he was commanded to beg,
but:

"FREEEEE-DOMMMMMM!"

The
executioner was given the nod to kill him. He turned his head to the
side - and had a vision of his already-murdered wife Murron (Catherine
McCormack) - seen walking in the crowd as a ghost and smiling at him.

After he was beheaded with one swinging stroke of a sharp
axe (off-screen), his death reunited him with her. The bloody rag he
held clenched in his fist dropped to the ground.

Torture and Beheading Execution Vision of Murdered Wife

Casino (1995)

Director Martin Scorsese's gangster crime drama was
replete with many brutal killings and murders, especially as the
corrupt Las Vegas casino empire began to crumble, especially after
a car-bombing attempt on the life of organized crime boss Sam "Ace" Rothstein
(Robert DeNiro) (the film's opening scene).

There were a brutal scene of two murders of two mobster
enforcers committed during a clandestine meeting in a remote Indiana
cornfield ("out
in the styx"). A deal was arranged with the mob bosses to kill
fellow gang-member Nicky in exchange for clemency:

Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro (Joe Pesci),
brash, volatile, psychopathic and hot-headed, the film's main protagonist,
who was having an affair with Rothstein's lover Ginger (Sharon
Stone), and was presumably responsible for the attempt on Rothstein's
life

Dominick (Philip Suriano), Nicky's brother

They were savagely beaten (Dominick
first, and then "Nicky")
within inches of dying by their own thuggish gang members wielding
metal-baseball bats, led by Frankie Marino (Frank Vincent).

After being brutally beaten and stripped, they both suffered
a barely-alive burial in a recently-dug ditch-grave hidden amongst
the corn stalks.

In voice-over, Rothstein explained the reason for the
hit on "Nicky"
- his hot-headedness:

The word was out. The bosses had enough of Nicky.
They had enough. How much were they gonna take? So they made an
example of him and his brother. They buried them while they were
still breathing.

Beaten and Buried 'Almost Dead'

Dead Man Walking (1995)

Director Tim Robbins' dramatic film about viewpoints
on capital punishment told about a death row Louisiana prisoner convicted
of murder, although he denied his guilt until the very end.

Matthew Poncelot (Sean Penn) was ordered to die via lethal
injection. His comforting spiritual counselor/Sister Helen Prejean
(Oscar-winning Susan Sarandon) was able to have him confess his guilt,
and ask for forgiveness from the victims' families just before his
death. He appealed to the dead boy's parent for forgiveness, and also
to the dead girl's parents - hoping that it would bring them peace:

"Mr.
Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart.
I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done,
taking your son away from you...Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death
gives you some relief."

His last words were:

"...I just wanna say I think
killin' is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it's me or y'all or
your government..."

Until the very end, Sister Prejean poignantly assured
him while he was strapped on a cross-shaped gurney, as the victims'
families and the comforting nun witnessed the capital punishment behind
a glass window:

I want the last face you see in this world to be
the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll
be the face of love for you.

Xenia played (and lost) a game
of baccarat at a Monte Carlo casino in S. France against James Bond
(Pierce Brosnan). Afterwards, she lured Canadian
Naval Admiral Chuck Farrel (Billy J. Mitchell) of the Department
of National Defence, back to the Admiral's
own luxury yacht the Manticore, moored off the coast.

Soon after, she became engaged in love-making with
him, in order to distract him and acquire his NATO ID card - to later
hijack a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter onboard a French warship.

The nymphomaniacal assassinatrix achieved a violent orgasm
while suffocating him with her long legs wrapped and clamped around
his mid-section - as she crushed him to death with her thighs. He screamed
out:

"Xenia, I can't breathe."

When Bond discovered the Admiral's corpse the next day
when it fell out of a closet on the yacht, the dead man still had an
eerie grimace or grin on his stiff face.

Crime syndicate Janus' lethal enforcer Xenia Onatopp
(Famke Janssen), known for crushing men to death with her thighs
to produce sexual sensations (see above), experienced her own crushing
death.

In her last attempt to take James Bond's (Pierce Brosnan)
life with her deadly legs, she tried to attack him after he had survived
a light aircraft crash in the jungles of Cuba.

While she was crushing him between her thighs ("This
time, Mr. Bond, the pleasure will be all mine"), he clipped her
into her harnessed rappelling rope, and shot with her weapon toward
her circling helicopter above.

When the chopper began to crash, Onatopp was propelled
backwards into the fork of a Y-shaped tree, where she was brutally
crushed by the impact. Bond quipped:

In the film's exciting conclusion, Bond (Pierce Brosnan)
made his way to a transmitter-antenna high above a satellite dish
(programmed to control a second deadly, rogue GoldenEye satellite
weapon).

Villain Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) pursued him and
the two engaged in a fierce, running fight-to-the death gun-battle
and fist-fight.

Bond evaded being killed by Trevelyan when he extended
a long ladder and dangled himself high above the parabolic dish. When
Trevelyan attempted to dislodge him, Bond was able to reverse the situation,
and he held his enemy over the dish by his ankles, and they exchanged
a final brief conversation before Bond dropped him:

Trevelyan: "For England,
James?"
Bond: "No. For me."

After the villain fell to the ground, the second GoldenEye
satellite exploded and disintegrated harmlessly during re-entry in
the upper atmosphere. Bond dove for the landing skids of a helicopter
gun-ship that Bond girl Nayalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) had hijacked,
and they flew off into the jungle to escape, as the transmitter exploded.

The massive, flaming structure crashed down on Trevelyan
to end his life - his death was filmed with a rapid, zooming-in shot
on his open, screaming mouth.

Janus crime operative and nerdy hacker/programmer Boris
Grishenko (Alan Cumming) yelled out a
phrase with which he often praised himself:

"I am invincible!"

He thought he had
just repositioned the transmitter antenna to communicate with a rogue
destructive GoldenEye satellite.

Shortly afterwards, he believed that he had survived
the destruction of the underground lair ("Yes, I am invincible!"),
but then was covered by a wave of liquid nitrogen that erupted from
ruptured fuel tanks.

Frozen solid, he perished in a celebratory pose.

Frozen Nitrogen Death

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

In Sam Raimi's parody of spaghetti westerns (with multiple
gunfights, gunplay, shoot-outs, fights, and hangings), a violent
and barbaric annual competition was promoted in a quick-draw gun-fight
in the lawless western town of Redemption Arizona between:

Herod didn't want to face his son: "Drop out. You've
made your point," but the Kid responded that he wanted respect:

The gunfight is in the head, not in the hands. The
only thing that makes him invincible is because you all think he
is. Maybe five years ago he was the fastest, but uh, time catches
up with everyone. He's just a little bit slower than he used to
be. And as for myself, would you believe it, I just reached my
peak.

The Kid shot his father Herod in the neck, but was lethally
shot in the stomach (he spoke before falling to the ground: "S--t,
that was fast").

As he expired, the Kid asked six-shooting female gunfighter
Ellen (Sharon Stone) (whose father was murdered by Herod in her youth): "Did
I get him?...Did I kill him?" and was told: "You were so
fast, Kid."
The Kid sobbed:

"I don't want to die. I don't want to die."

He stretched out his hand to his wounded father standing
above him before dying.

The Kid's Death

The shootout itself was filmed with an impressive and
frenetic smash-zoom (push-pull) camera movement.